i’ve been trying to switch back to windows xp but since i tried your instructions. it hasn’t helped. here is a screenshot for you to see. This is something that I think has to do with windows being updated to SP3 itself.

i’ve also tried using msn messenger without it trying to repair every time it starts. each time I went back to SP2 msn messenger didn’t try to repair itself but every time I went to SP3 msn messenger tries to repair itself. eventually it has stopped trying to repair and still doesn’t connect. I can connect to the website (escargot.log1p.xyz but not m1.escargot.log1p.xyz. what you think is happening here?

To use versions of Messenger including and after 4.7.2005 on Windows XP, including MSN Messenger 5, 6, and 7, there are several configuration changes that need to be made to the default Windows XP installation to avoid an authentication error (80048821).
At present there are intermittent server issues when connecting via XP, but it still can be made to work with a little effort
Turn off SSL2.0 and SSL3.0
Escargot’s server uses TLS1.0 with the TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA cipher as the best se…